Join Us for a Bookish Weekend at a Manor House in Wales

About this episode

The episode announces a bookish weekend event at Trevor Hall in Wales, inviting listeners to join the hosts and community for a literary retreat.

This is a special episode of Strong Sense of Place in which we announce that we’re doing it again — we’re taking a group of readers back to Trevor Hall. In October 2025, we took over Trevor Hall — a Georgian manor house in Llangollen, Wales — with forty members of the Strong Sense of Place community. It was the best book club ever. We took walks in the countryside, talked about (so many) books, enjoyed ridiculously delicious meals, and told spooky stories by candlelight. And we made lifelong friends. We’re doing it again — and you’re invited to join us! Together, we’ll make ourselves at home in this historic mansion surrounded by the picturesque North Wales countryside. We’ll have a book club, share gourmet meals in the Great Hall, play parlor games, ramble in the hills, and stomp our feet at a Celtic ceilidh. Our weekend begins in Manchester, England — a UNESCO City of Literature. We’ll check into our rooms at a design hotel and enjoy our first IRL meetup in a historic library. After a good night’s sleep, we’re off to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for a private tour of the Victorian villa where she wrote ‘North and South’ (and entertained literary friends like Charlotte Brontë and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Melissa, Dave

Topics covered

• book club
• travel
• literature
• community
• Wales
• historical sites

Keywords

• book club
• Wales
• Trevor Hall
• literature
• community event
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• North and South

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: North and South

Places: Trevor Hall, Llangollen, North Wales, Manchester, Elizabeth Gaskell’s House